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jin

[ jin ]

noun

, Islamic Mythology.
, plural jins, (especially collectively) jin.


jin

/ dʒiːn /

noun

  1. See catty
    (Mandarin) Chinese name for catty 2


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Or the flier who jumped from the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai and slammed into an air conditioning unit on a roof.

Just a couple blocks from Columbia University, Jin Ramen is a far cry from the instant noodles found in dorm rooms across campus.

Tiger bones routinely sell for a thousand dollars per jin, a Chinese unit of weight just over one pound.

In November, Tablet covered the return of a 28-year-old Chinese Jew, Jin Jin, to Israel, where he now lives.

Then the narrator asks about Liam Neeson's Qui-Gon Jin, the Phantom Menace's monotonous hero.

Even when he frolics with Fukuroku Jin, and rides on his head, he keeps his hammer ready swinging at his belt.

At a wedding you will always see a picture of white-bearded and shiny-pated Fukoruku Jin.

But if Fukuroku Jin can only get hold of Daikoku's lop ears, both fall together.

Potching-engine, poch′ing-en′jin, n. in paper-making, a machine in which washed rags are bleached.

The jin-ri-ki-sha, to give it its full name, means man-power carriage, and is like a big mail-cart or perambulator.

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